UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN: SOCIAL STUDIES METHODS 544B

Designer Name(s): John McCarty Date: 5/15/2017

Subject Area: Social Studies Grade Level(s):7th
Unit Title/Focus: Renaissance
Estimated Amount of Instructional Time: 13 days, 50 minute lessons

Stage 1 Desired Results

State Content and Skill Standards:

7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7
Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print
and digital texts.
9. Expressing information and ideas in formal oral presentations on academic topics
10. Writing literary and informational texts to present, describe, and explain ideas and information, using
appropriate technology
1. Exchanging information/ideas
Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions by following turn-taking rules, asking relevant questions,
affirming others, adding relevant information and evidence, paraphrasing key ideas, building on responses, and
providing useful feedback.

Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:

Students will understand that...
1. Interactions between culture and peoples is a
vehicle of change.
2. Human accomplishment is both evolutionary
and revolutionary
1. How do transitioning political structures affect
social development?
2. How do recurring events make lasting global
impact?

What students will know: What students will be able to do:

1. Ideas and events of the Italian Renaissance 1. Describe the factors of Historical Turning Points
help shape our understanding of the modern 2. Summarize achievements and their relevant
world. application in a Formal setting
 2. Accomplishments in the revival of classical 3. Evaluate and discuss thoughts and ideas among
learning, the arts of the Renaissance era, peers in an informal setting
and an increased ability to distribute
information represent a Historical Turning
point from feudal society of the Middle Ages
to the Renaissance era starting in Italy

Stage 2 - Assessment Evidence

Performance Tasks: Other Evidence:

1. Letter from Florence (formative) 1. SOAPStone image Analysis
2. Figures of the Italian Renaissance 2. Historical Turning Points activity
Interview(summative) 3. Tour of Florence Simulation
4. Guided reading questions

Stage 3 - Learning Plan

Learning Activities:
1. Renaissance Image Analysis ppt (SOAPStone) day 1
2. Italian City-States ppt notes/ Renaissance Advancements/Historical Turning point activity-days 2,3
3. Italian City States/Humanism Guided Reading Questions-day 4
4. Tour of Florence Simulation-days 5,6,7
5. Letter From Florence Assessment-day 8
6. Complete historical figures resume (background info)-days 9,10
7. Interview Questions and Answers-days 9,10,11,
8. Interview Q/A of 1-4 other historical figures (Bingo!) day 10,11
9. Group interview (Summative Assessment) day 12
10. Jeopardy! (day 13)